Nobel prizes and nature's surprises / Erling Norrby, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norrby, Erling.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nobel Prizes.

Immunology.

Biology--Research.

Biology.

Life sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 451 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits

Place of Publication:

New Jersey : World Scientific, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Each year the Nobel Prizes in the natural sciences reveal amazing discoveries. New milestones in the relentless advance of science are identified. The growth of knowledge and its evolution can be researched in the Nobel archives where nominations are kept secret for 50 years after the awards have been made. They represent a treasure for real-time assessment of science. Norrby's earlier book, Nobel Prizes and Life Sciences (2010) examined the unique archival records until 1959. The present book takes us up to 1962, surveying a range of dazzling discoveries. All prizes in immunology are reviewed

Contents:

A magician of virology from Australia

A divided Nobel Prize and a new era in immunology

More Nobel Prizes in immunology

Immunity, infections and transplantations

Transgressing borders in science and scenes of life

Making sense of hearing : art and science

Unraveling the complexity of protein folding

"It's so beautiful, you see, so beautiful!"

Coda.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF (ebrary, viewed December 30, 2013).

ISBN:

9789814520997

9814520993

9789814522007

9814522007

OCLC:

897557570